[Soot-list] load classes from jimple files

[Patrick LAM]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Kin Keung Ma wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 12:48:08 -0500 (EST), Patrick LAM
> <plam at sable.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Kin Keung Ma wrote:
> > > If such a way exists, will the class loading take less time than
> > > loading a class from .class ?
> >
> > Unfortunately, it is no faster to load a file from .jimple than from
> > .class.
>
> Is there a way to put SootClass objects to ObjectOutputStream, so that
> I can reload them later without going thru the class resolving process
> which is more time consuming?

I'm speculating here, but I think the actual allocation is what's taking
time, not any computation: it's just because there are a lot of objects to
allocate.  We haven't, to my knowledge, experimented with
ObjectOutputStream, but if you get any results, please share them with the
list.

pat